Kejriwal furnish the letter signed by Modi as he claims or apologize: BJP

New Delhi: BJP Delhi chief spokesperson Sanjay Kaul today said the Mr. Kejriwal’s reported statements at a rally in Delhi suggesting that he had in his possession a letter signed by Narender Modi seeking a gas price hike was a blatant lie.

“It is unbecoming of someone who has held office to indulge in this level of falsehood and I challenge Mr. Kejriwal to produce such a letter or apologize publicly for saying this”, he said.

Kaul said that his failure to do so would only confirm Kejriwal’s reputation as a pathological liar.

Mr. Kaul argued that the AAP campaign on the gas price fixation was a red herring designed to fuel Mr. Kejriwal’s election campaign. He said that the AAP has tried to politicize the gas price fixation issue and floated a new conspiracy theory only to bolster its falling popularity ratings.

Clarifying that there was no truth in Kejriwal’s charge, he said that it should be made clear that Gujarat CM and BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has written no such letter to the Government of India on this matter.

Reacting to a press note circulated by AAP earlier, Kaul said that Government of Gujarat has never asked for a price of $16 per MMBTU of domestic natural gas as is being alleged. “Mr Kejriwal should have known that the price and volumes of natural gas are dictated by the Government of India and State Governments have no role in the matter”.

Pointing out that the matter of gas pricing is already pending in the Supreme Court and the matter is under the consideration of the Parliament Standing Committee, Kaul underlined that Kejriwal’s exhortations were only meant to excite the public and not to work for the benefit of consumers.

AAP’s vigilantism on the issue is only putting gas producing companies in risk and this will eventually harm the entire sector and increase India’s dependence on highly priced foreign gas imports. Clearly, the only beneficiaries of Mr. Kejriwal’s campaign are going to be non Indian gas producing entities to the detriment of self sufficiency and energy security.